University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. Ebooks have been popular for decades and audiobooks are increasingly so. But physical books are still the decided ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, ...

Amazon is ending the Prime Invitee program on October 1, cutting off shared shipping benefits for users outside a household. The change will remove a lesser-known but useful perk that allowed free and ...

A hot potato: Do you feel like Amazon Prime Video has more ads than it used to? It's not your imagination. The streamer has reportedly increased the amount of ads to nearly double the amount it showed ...

A game of Magic: The Gathering begins well before players lay down their first card. As a collectible card game, Magic requires competitive players to select the optimal deck of cards based on how ...

A basic feature of number theory, prime numbers are also a fundamental building block of computer science, from hashtables to cryptography. Everyone knows that a prime number is one that cannot be ...

The largest known prime number has been discovered by an amateur researcher and former Nvidia employee. The new number is 2 136,279,841 – 1, which beats the previous title holder (2 82,589,933 – 1) by ...

A reader is puzzled by the popularity of animal print in women’s fashion. Our critic offers an explanation for its appeal. By Vanessa Friedman Will we ever see the end of leopard print on women’s ...

The U.S. Government Publishing Office’s (GPO) print procurement program awarded $496 million in contracts with private sector printing companies across the country to meet the printing and publishing ...